Well think I had better fess up about my attempt to have a run in the 4/4 last week.
She lives in our garage, rubber sheet on the wall in case I open the door too far, rubber chock under rear wheel in case she rolls backwards into garage door, nothing stored above her. . . You get the drift
Now, she is always left in neutral and the roof is never up.
Came out early in the morning to run my daughter to work, princess says ' I can't possibly go in that car with the roof down and get to work with my hair ruined'
Muggins quickly puts the roof up and reaches in to start the girl as I always warm her up
Yes she was in gear,launched forward into two carbon fibre road bikes hanging up and pushed these into the brick garage wall
Both wings badly damaged but incredibly no damage to the grill area, best bike frame escaped damage but wheel trashed, older bike wrecked
Fortunately I'm insured with insurer Shannon's that allow choice of repairer so chose a specialist vintage shop that are very confident that they can repair the wings rather than replace. Unfortunately they can't do anything for my acute embarrassment and annoyance with myself
Weather is picture perfect but no rides for a few weeks, then I'm off to walk from Glasgow to Inverness.
Lesson: always start the car when you are in it

Jeff
2011. 4/4